ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Zlatko Tomcic said in Zagreb on Monday he hoped Croatia and the Czech Republic would make up for lost time in the furtherance of cooperation over the past several years. "I believe
that at the end of the visit we will be able to say that there is a chance for the two countries to make up for lost time in the promotion of cooperation over the past several years," Tomcic said after meeting Czech Parliament Speaker Vaclav Klaus, who is heading a Czech parliamentary delegation which arrived in Croatia for a two-day visit today. Tomcic said the two sides would have talks on the situation in the region and on intensifying parliamentary cooperation in the next two days. Both officials stressed the similarity of their countries' foreign policy and economic goals. Although the situation in the Czech Republic in the past decade was difficult, the break-up of the federa
ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Zlatko Tomcic
said in Zagreb on Monday he hoped Croatia and the Czech Republic
would make up for lost time in the furtherance of cooperation over
the past several years.
"I believe that at the end of the visit we will be able to say that
there is a chance for the two countries to make up for lost time in
the promotion of cooperation over the past several years," Tomcic
said after meeting Czech Parliament Speaker Vaclav Klaus, who is
heading a Czech parliamentary delegation which arrived in Croatia
for a two-day visit today.
Tomcic said the two sides would have talks on the situation in the
region and on intensifying parliamentary cooperation in the next
two days.
Both officials stressed the similarity of their countries' foreign
policy and economic goals.
Although the situation in the Czech Republic in the past decade was
difficult, the break-up of the federal state was much more painful
in former Yugoslavia, Klaus said.
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were established at the end of World
War II and none of them survived the fall of communism and the
progress of democracy, said the Czech official, who is to hold a
lecture on transition problems in the Czech Republic at Zagreb's
Faculty of Economics tomorrow.
(hina) rml